playlists, s02e04, "Did I Let You Feel the Blame" (2020, 2024)
90’29” | Audiovisual query
Austria | 2020, 2024
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Video-material-wise, this playlist continues the pre-AIDS gay-art porn strand, occasionally interrupting it with semi-random film footage, which, in this case, is Save Yourselves! (dir. Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson, 2020), a watchable quirky sci-fi dramedy, whose highlight is a fluffy alien creature that shoots intestine-looking tentacles at its human prey. This was one of the early COVID-19 pandemic wave's film releases, which I have postponed watching by a few years. Its isolation-heavy vibe is a fascinating shoutout to the not-so-distant past, which has somehow been covered by the present-day turmoils. Through the query of film footage I did for this playlist, there's been one major discovery: The Men of Big Sur (dir. Dick Martin, 1970), whose structure is the most wormhole'y of all the genre films I have checked so far. Vimeo continues their copyright-fight bullshit, which is likely the sign that it's time to find another host.
The Men of Big Sur (dir. Dick Martin, 1970)
Go For It (1976)